Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Medical marijuana to become an instant $100 million industry, study shows  -  AUSTRALIANS are expected to consume as much as 8000kg of medical cannabis worth $100 million in just the first year of being legalised, according ...

Education system, social attitudes to blame for low bilingualism rates: experts  -  Children in Australia ] miss out on a lot of opportunities because they don't have the language skills," she said. Ms Dabrowski has called on state ...

Child Psychopathic Signs Can Be Found As Early As 3 Years Old  - According to Sydney Morning Herald, a study from the University of New South Wales in Australia emerged stating that young children can display ...

Australia's education system can be lifted by ignoring teaching fads and more involved parents  - Before they can be creative primary school children need to memorise their times tables, do mental arithmetic, learn to recite poems and ballads and ...

ABSTUDY boost for Indigenous Students  - General Manager Hank Jongen said Centrelink’s ABSTUDY payment helps Australians of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent with the costs of studying or doing an Australian Apprenticeship.

Calls for British Museum to surrender Indigenous Gweagal shield  -  Aboriginal Australian descendants of the Gweagal clan in New South Wales have called for the return of a shield taken by Captain Cook on his ...

Changing the flag will blunt Australia's future  - His thoughts echo those of a thin group of flag-changers occasionally emerging to propose amendments to Australia's pinnacle national symbol.

Future stars at the heart of Indigenous Football Week  - In an Australian football first, a group of young Indigenous footballers from remote parts of the Northern Territory will walk out with the Caltex ...

Minister rejects nuclear dump spectre in Aboriginal heritage overhaul  - “South Australia is currently facing a number of contentious developments that may significantly impact on Aboriginal land and on the protection of ...

The money was spent on vehicles, boats, quad bikes, and cash payments to a friend  - In the 1960s the traditional Aboriginal owners of Groote and Bickerton ... It was the first agreement of its kind in Australia between Aboriginal people ...

Uni students told to refer to rewriting of Australian history  - Students at a leading NSW university are being told to refer to Australia as ... Students are also being taught the terms “ Aborigines ” and “ Aboriginal  ...

Georgia Governor to Veto 'Religious Liberty' Bill: How Will It Impact LGBT Community?  - Georgia Governor Nathan Deal announced that he is going to veto a religious liberty bill. The move is considered as a significant victory for the LGBT  ...

The Project host Waleed Aly talks about homelessness and begging in Australia  - During his Something To Think About on The Project on Monday evening Aly asked why it was still illegal to beg in most parts of Australia despite ...

Funding for Aboriginal languages  - WHILE announcing an additional round of state government grants to support the revitalisation of Aboriginal languages , Member for Northern ...

Goodbye wheelchair, New Zealand firm develops robotic legs for people with mobility problems  - Rex Bionics, a company in New Zealand , is developing robotic legs for people who have lost the ability to move their legs. Using the self-supporting ...

How Far Would You Go For Wine? New Zealand , Where One Day Lasts 42 Hours  - Few places on the planet define “destination” better than New Zealand , ... As anywhere, though, it's the people and their imaginations that claim the ...

Cook Islands opposition against proposed EU tuna deal  - The country's new opposition leader, Teina Bishop, said he was against the agreement because it involved so-called super purse seiners, and ...

Scholarship recipients encourage Maori into university study  - A scholarship has allowed two Maori students to achieve more than they ... says he learned a lot about himself and his Maori culture while overseas.

Maori children still up to 5x more likely to die from sudden unexplained infant deaths  -  Maori children still up to 5x more likely to die from sudden unexplained infant ... Maori children are still four to five times the risk of dying from SUDI ...

Drought-stricken Papua New Guinea told to eat guinea pigs to survive  - The Commonwealth nation of seven million people has suffered from a severe drought and food shortages, causing increases in malnutrition and ...

Easter celebration seeks to bond church with Papuan culture  - Around 4,000 tribal people in Papua participated in a Easter celebration designed to strengthen the Melanesian bond among indigenous Catholics in ...

Guinea pig breeding helps Papua New Guinea families, endangered wildlife survive food shortage  - "The people out there have a really short supply of protein in their diet, which has obvious consequences of malnutrition and various other problems, ...

Black Power wedding photo goes viral in New Zealand  - A couple's chance wedding photograph with members of New Zealand's ... Power is a prominent gang made up of Maori and Polynesian members.

Strong turnout for flag vote a plus, Maori less inclined though  - The bid to change the New Zealand flag has come to a predictable end even if the margin was closer than opinion polls suggested, with 56.6 percent ...